One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified. Marthe Bibesco More Quotes by Marthe Bibesco More Quotes From Marthe Bibesco The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love without its being returned - which, perhaps, is the only way of feeling it permanently. Marthe Bibesco soul feelings art that sunlight of the dead which is called literature. Marthe Bibesco sunlight literature ... love always betrays its intentions. Marthe Bibesco love-always betray intention marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation. Marthe Bibesco calamity occupation The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty. Marthe Bibesco solitude love-is ideas those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness. Marthe Bibesco greatness two people Words express only the feelings we know already. Marthe Bibesco knows feelings Children never grow tired; their likes and dislikes are constant; let them laugh at something once and they laugh always; do what you will, they are sure to say, 'Do it again! Marthe Bibesco likes-and-dislikes tired children history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries. Marthe Bibesco upside-down immortality history there are no nationalities in heaven. Marthe Bibesco nationality equality heaven collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion. Marthe Bibesco passion sports father The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation. Marthe Bibesco royal gossip house
